FC4T3 install: boot fail after install onto reiserfs

[Jim Cornette]

Richard Michael wrote:
> Three times today on different hardware (changing hard drives and
> architecture), I have attempted to install FC4 Test 3 onto a single
> partition reiserfs system, hda1 (10GB) = reiserfs, hda2 (1024MB) = swap.
> 
> To launch the install, I used "linux selinux=0 reiserfs".
> 
> The install proceeds normally, but during the initial reboot, the system
> halts when uncompressing the kernel and reports:
> 
> -----
> 
> <snip boot loader messages>
> 
> Uncompressing Linux...
> 
> ran out of input data
> 
>    -- System halted
> 
> -----
> 
> I might expect a bad hard drive, but, as I mentioned, this happens on
> two different drives, in two different systems.
> 
> Does anyone know what's happening?
> 
> Apologies if this is answered somewhere already.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 

Is the /boot partition reiserfs also? I read on another Linux distro 
that the /boot partition should be ext2 or ext3. The reason is due to grub.

Jim



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